Do you know a long song that doesn’t repeat itself and sort of tells a story through music (maybe without words)?
Most of Coheed and Cambria’s albums follow along with a graphic novel written by Claudio, the lead singer. I’ve never read them and don’t know the story, but if you listen to an album start to finish, you can tell that it’s more than just lyrics.
Ten Speed of God’s Blood and Burial. Perfectly clear.
The Coheed and Cambria comics are awesome. They’re hard to get your hands on, after Umbrella Academy got popular, but worth it.
Arlo Guthree’s Alice’s Restaurant has you covered. I play it every Thanksgiving.
Dating myself a bit here, but Meatloaf’s Paradise By The Dashboard Light, and Billy Joel’s Scenes from an Italian Restaurant are 2 that need to be on this list.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The whole album Days of Future’s Past by the Moody Blues (with the London orchestra)
I don’t know about without words (and only slight repetition for effect), but I really like The Mariner’s Revenge by The Decemberists.
If you want to get into older music, Der Erlkonig by Shubert is a good one.
2112 by Rush
Badger Badger Mushroom
Give a listen to “Music inspired by the snowgoose” by camel.
They were a psychedelic /progressive rock band from the UK who wanted to write an album based on a short story called The snowgoose. The author wasn’t a fan, unbelievably, so they scratched the lyrics and added “music inspired by” to the album title. The whole album is a journey that I can’t recommend enough!
City Hall by Tenacious D
Doesn’t a song have words by definition?
If you’re looking for musical compositions, I’d say Schubert’s Death and the Maiden quintet or Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Thanks, English is not my best skill, so yeah, just music
there is a hindi song which is sorta long (5 mins without music, 6 with) - Breathless (not really breathless, but full song done in just 16 breaths(that is roughly 3 per minute), but almost none are easily audible) - it is a romance story - meetup - love blossom - heart break - life ruined - reunion - together forever. The lyricist is one of the best hindi/urdu lyricist, maybe among the best in the world
also there are many old classical concerts (for example - beethoven) which are music only and at times were in conjunction with plays or dramas going through stories
Its called opera.
Interstellar 55555
Thick as a Brick
Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds
